Wordnik

WordnikWhat is Wordnik?Words – examplified, defined, correlated, translated (from English), pronounced-, images, statistics, und so weiter.« Wordnik is much more than an interactive online dictionary of English. Beyond giving definitions (from the 2008 American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language and other sources), Wordnik provides example sentences showing words in context, information about words’ frequency and use patterns, related words, and more. It allows users to contribute information, such as recorded pronunciations, tags, and suggestions for new words. Flickr images are used to illustrate some words. This is definitely a site for “anyone who wants to know more about a word than they can find out in a traditional dictionary.” » writes the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association (ALA)Check it out for yourself, it’s worth it…

It has now been added to the LazyTerm section of TerminoTrad, which points to it.